She married Bobby Keane, one of a Waterford squirearchical family in 1938 and had two daughters. She grew up at Ballyrankin in County Wexford and was educated at a boarding school in Bray, County Wicklow. Molly Keane (20 July 1904 – 22 April 1996) was an Irish novelist and playwright (born Mary Nesta Skrine in Ryston Cottage, Newbridge, County Kildare). I love all her books, but Good Behaviour and Loving and Giving are the ones I return to most' Maggie O'Farrell Nobody else can touch her as a satirist, tragedian and dissector of human behaviour. 'I have read and re-read Molly Keane more, I think, than any other writer. This elegant and allusive novel established Molly Keane as the natural successor to Jean Rhys. But crumbling codes of conduct cannot hope to save the members of the St Charles family from their own unruly and inadmissible desires. To Aroon St Charles, large and unlovely daughter of the house, the fierce forces of sex, money, jealousy and love seem locked out by the ritual patterns of good behaviour. īehind the gates of Temple Alice, the aristocratic Anglo-Irish St Charles family sinks into a state of decaying grace. I do know how to behave - believe me, because I know. A real work of craftsmanship' Hilary Mantel It's a tragi-comedy set in Ireland after the First World War. 'Molly Keane is a mistress of wicked comedy' Vogue A BBC TWO BETWEEN THE COVERS BOOK CLUB PICK (BOOKER PRIZE GEMS)
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